Prof.
Simon Hooker
(University of Oxford)
6/4/13, 4:00 PM
WG1+4
talk
In recent years laser wakefield accelerators – in which the plasma wave is driven by a single high-intensity laser pulse – have generated quasi-monoenergetic electron beams with energies up to the GeV range. However, the driving lasers used have low wall-plug efficiencies (<1%) and operate at pulse repetition rates of at most a few Hz. Scaling this approach to generate electron beams – or...
Prof.
Jens Limpert Limpert
(FSU Jena)
6/4/13, 4:18 PM
talk
An important driver of scientific progress has always been the envisioning of applications far beyond existing technological capabilities. In the case of laser physics, one of these applications is laser wake-field particle acceleration and possible future uses thereof, such as in collider experiments, or for medical applications such as cancer treatment. To accelerate electrons and positrons...
Prof.
Renato Fedele
(NA)
6/4/13, 4:36 PM
WG1+4
talk
The standard classical description of non-laminar charge particle beams in paraxial approximation is extended to the context of two wave theories. The first theory is the so-called Thermal Wave Model (TWM) that interprets the paraxial thermal spreading of the beam particles as the analog of the quantum diffraction. The other theory, hereafter called Quantum Wave Model (QWM), takes into account...
Mr
Steffen Hillenbrand
(CERN, KIT)
6/4/13, 4:54 PM
WG1+4
talk
In addition to their high beam energies and small facility footprint, the short bunch lengths customary for Laser Wakefield Accelerators make them very interesting as injectors for Synchrotron Light Sources. Exemplary investigations have been carried out using the ANKA storage ring. As the length of the electron bunch influences both the duration and the spectrum of the emitted Synchrotron...
Dr
Chiara Bracco
(CERN)
6/4/13, 5:12 PM
WG1+4
talk
The construction of the first proof of principle experiment which uses proton bunches to generate plasma wakefield acceleration (AWAKE) is proposed at CERN.
The facility could be installed at the end of the existing CNGS proton beam tunnel as the neutron physics program terminated in 2012.
Minor modifications of the existing proton line have to be applied to fit the experiment, adapt the...
